Re: Bettes' 2011 statement vs his 2013 chase video
Posted by
Chris in Tampa on 6/1/2013, 10:16 pm
I was thinking today about how someone on the interstate may know about a tornado. If you were traveling cross country or even across a state, whether a trucker or just someone on vacation, how would you know there is a tornado warning in the county you are driving through? I guess it would easy to say someone should pay attention before they travel and perhaps avoid areas where severe weather is possible, but since most probably would not rearrange plans just for that reason, especially truckers, seems like there should be something. NOAA radio available in cars? Do signs, not that there would be enough anyway even where there are some, but do any signs notify people when there is a tornado warning? Sirens along the roadway, or would that do any good? Going 70mph or being parked would be a big difference I think, although being in a vehicle is a last resort. Of course you have to know about the tornado if you are driving along.
I guess some of the storm chasers excuse for this tornado is that it veered left. Maybe TWC normally takes more precautions, but obviously they need to take more. (It only takes being wrong once to get dead.) You couldn't see the tornado. Even people who don't know anything would know to stay away from a tornado you know is there but that you can't see. You need good visibility to get video of it, which is the reason they are doing it. (whether for the ratings/money or a public service, it's obviously some combination of both, with what percentage what and what who knows) I can't understand why they would get that close to a rain wrapped tornado.
As for the chasers in that video, I still can't believe they thought they had time to stop. I don't care if they did think it would continue on, tornadoes often move back and forth, reforming here and there. If they can't respect that, they need to get off the road.
One thing I would note about getting out of your car and getting in a ditch. I would not want to get in a ditch directly next to my car, or anyone else's car, in case it rolled, or landed, on top of me. But a ditch, flat on the ground protecting my head is what I would do if the situation ever came up. |
82
In this thread:
Post A Reply
This thread has been archived and can no longer receive replies.